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January 2006
Jason Stevenson |
Kong Speaks Interview with Andy Serkis, the actor who loaned his voice and body movements to computer-generated characters Gollum in Lord of the Rings and King Kong in Peter Jackson's latest movie.   |
CIO
January 1, 2003
Stephanie Overby |
Virtual Stars Boffo in Tinseltown A new breed of actor is taking a star turn in Hollywood. They don't hide out in their trailers, check into rehab in the middle of a shoot or sleep with their costars. They do their own stunts, can shoot take upon take and don't require residuals. |
BusinessWeek
April 2, 2007 |
James Cameron on the Cutting Edge The director of Terminator and Titanic explains how movies will be transformed by motion-tracking and 3D technology. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2007
Eric Pavey |
Ready for their Close-ups Making all the right choices to create a computer-generated figure that looks truly alive is no easy task. It probably will take a Leonardo da Vinci, or a team of da Vincis-computer-graphics artists talented enough to put it all together. |
Wired
October 2005
Jonathan Bing |
Return of the King Peter Jackson's remake of King Kong hits the big screen in December. But for the last year, he's been giving eager fans a behind-the-scenes look at the world he built for the big ape on his comprehensive site. |
Popular Mechanics
January 2007
Tom Russo |
Movies 2.0: Digital Effects Magic Explained In today's digital Hollywood, cameras capture scenes in bits, not frames and computer wizards conjure up everything from impossible beasts to cliff-top battlegrounds. Film is dead. Long live the movies. |
Wired
March 2006
Matt Brady |
How Digital Animation Conquered Hollywood Digital animation is not just for cartoons anymore. Here's how it has been used to make great movies such as King Kong, Sin City, Munich, V for Vendetta, and Jarhead. |
Salon.com
December 18, 2002
Charles Taylor |
"The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" Yes, there are some "middle-chapter" problems, but Peter Jackson's Tolkien adaptation hasn't lost its devastating humanity, its heart-stopping cinematography or its epic sweep. |
Popular Mechanics
May 21, 2008
Glenn Derene |
Motion Capture Ready to Bring Next-Gen Avatars to Gaming, Movies, Medicine, the Military and More (With Video!) It's testament to the speed of digital imaging innovation that what was considered revolutionary just a few years ago is already being superseded by a new generation of motion-capture technologies. |
BusinessWeek
April 2, 2007
Aili McConnon |
The Mind-Bending New World Of Work Motion-capture technology has burst out of Hollywood and into businesses from aerospace to advertising. |
Wired
September 26, 2007
Ted Greenwald |
Read the Full Transcript of Wired's Interview with Ridley Scott The transcript of the full interview with Ridley Scott on the movie he's been working on for 25 years. |
